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NOTE: GIMP 3 users: "arithmetic coding" JPG is not supported by many programs, instead displays blank page (slrpnk.net)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I just had extreme pain with this.

Apart from broken PDF tools, GIMP 2.99.x is already really nice. I recommend the Flatpak from flathub-beta.

The 2 big browsers dont seem to support arithmetic coded JPEG at least in PDF!

They will simply display blank pages!

Example PDF

Lets do a list

Tools that are broken

Linux

Firefox / Librewolf (RPM)
likely Chromium (see below)
Scrivano (Flatpak)
QPDF Tools (Flatpak) (and I suppose qpdf too)
Rescribe OCR (Flatpak)
JPEG2PDF (Flatpak, displays correctly but broken image pipe)
Arianna (Flatpak, not sure if supports PDF)
NightPDF (Electron/Chromium, Flatpak)

(I dont recommend that software but it works for that purpose. See my list of recommended Flatpak apps here)

Android

Mull (Firefox Android)
GrapheneOS PDF, Cuprum PDF, MJ PDF (Chromium Webview)
SavPDF (maybe also Webview)

Web

pdf24.org (webservice)
StirlingPDF (Docker/Podman container)

IOS

Safari PDF viewer (iOs 16.7.2)

Software that works

Linux, Flatpak (likely also native package)

KDE Okular
GNOME Evince (Document Viewer)
Inkscape
Libreoffice Draw
PDF Arranger (libqpdf 11.9.0, pikepdf 8.15.1)
Bookworm 1.1.2
KOReader
Sioyek
CorePDF
gImageReader

Android

muPDF
Collabora Office
KOReader, Librera, Orion Viewer (all dont support modern filesystem permissions)

Lets report some issues?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Broken in iOs 16.7.2 using whatever built in viewer comes with Safari.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Wow, an actual GIMP tester. Not all heroes wear cape.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

I get some crashes but it is the only version I have installed.